HockeyDaddy wrote:Major respect for Ribero there. More players need to respect each other like that.

If you replaced Ribiero with Malkin and Crosby with Giroux I'd have flipped out. No one is asking you to kill anyone but you make that hit.

I think you thump him there. Not some kind of wipeout, high hit, but hockey is and always has been a contact sport.

As far as the respect for other players goes, what if any respect that was left "officially" died with the instigator rule. While it's nice to hear the bit about how players supposedly respected each other more back in the older days, that is not really true. Sounds nice, but no so accurate.

I believe this had nothing to do with respect. You make a hit there if he would have got there soon enough... it might have been late had he done it there. I'm not saying you throw an elbow or you hit him in the head but you make a hit for your team.